About the Author

John Davidson was born in Lower Hutt and lives in Wellington, having retired as Professor of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington in 2010. He has published extensively on ancient Greek literature and mythology and the Reception of the Classics in New Zealand poetry. He is co-author of The Snake-Haired Muse: James K. Baxter and Classical Myth (2011). This is his fourth collection of poetry, after Presence in Absence (2013), Snapshots of Berlin (with Matthias Seidenstucker, 2014) and Soundings of Hellas (2015). He has been a dedicated Wagnerian for many years.